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For a number of ortho-substituted nitrobenzene radical anions (RAs) generated in DMF and its binary mixtures with water, it is shown that for radical anions with a substituent of minor effective volume in one ortho position to the nitro group, the dependences of the isotropic hyperfine interaction (ihfi) constants on the mole fraction of water are S-like and dictated by the medium composition and the concerted out-of-plane rotational and pyramidal distortions of the nitro group of the radical anion. The S-like shape of the solvation dependences of the ihfi constants is dictated by the dominant rotational distortions of the nitro group. For most radical anions with two ortho substituents or with one ortho substituent with a large effective volume, the S-like dependences are not observed, and the values of the nitrogen ihfi constants depend on the dominant pyramidal distortion of the nitro group. For the 2-tert-butylnitrobenzene radical anion in water, the nitrogen ihfi constant is aN=25.62 G, which is typical of nitroaliphatic radical anions. This effect is explained based on the pyramidal structure of the nitro group in the case of its large rotation angles.
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Shundrin, L.A., Starichenko, V.F., Shchegoleva, L.N. et al. Solvation Dependences of Isotropic Hyperfine Interaction Constants and out-of-Plane Distortions of ortho-Substituted Nitrobenzene Radical Anions. Journal of Structural Chemistry 44, 592–604 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JORY.0000017935.56207.6b
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